PowerComputing Clone with CD-ROM issues on YDL Install

[Seth Dimbert]

On 6/19/03 8:41 AM, "Ramsey French" <rammjet@bisnaga.com> wrote:

> For the PowerCenter 120, Power Computing used a modified PowerMac 7200
> motherboard along with a lot of off-the-shelf PC components to reduce costs.
> They used a standard PC SCSI CD drive.  The Apple CD control panel required
> a CD drive that had an Apple ROM on it.  There were some hacks on the
> internet that allowed the Apple CD control panel to work with SOME
> non-Apple-ROM'd drives.  Otherwise, one was stuck using a 3rd party driver
> such as the included FWB CD-Rom Toolkit.  Unless you change the drive to one
> that has an Apple ROM in it, the Apple software won't work with it.
> 
> But that is a MacOS problem.
> 
> Linux should be able to work with a standard PC drive and should not care
> about whether the drive has an Apple ROM.

Exactly! The drive *should* work just fine.

> I own a PowerCenter 120 upgraded to a 200 MHz 604e (I don't believe I yet
> have the correct BootX command to enable the full speed of the processor).
> I had no problem using the YDL 3.0 CD's in the original CD drive and
> successfully installed YDL 3.0.  I performed no special tricks to pull this
> off, but I did follow this advice for old-world Macs:
> 
> http://www.macgix.com/ydl3oldworld.html


I was excited to see this link, until I read it carefully. Step one says
something like "Install YDL 3.0 according to the included directions."
That's what I can't do!

I appreciate your email; if you can think of anything else, please let me
know.

-SD